Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Today's Gratitude Item: Computer started up first time!!! Was very relieved about this. Yesterday I uninstalled the program that could have been causing my computer to have "issues" on start up. Hopefully it will continue to behave. I really really hate it when my computer does not "play nice".

Monday, October 30, 2006

Believe it or not, this one uses the same parameters as "Green Peas". The detail is best appreciated when viewed in large size.

Today's Gratitude Item: That my computer finally decided to cooperate. For some reason, it does not want to seem to start up and for the last two days has been giving me a black screen followed by the "Windows could not start up normally" message. The most frustrating part of this is that I have no idea what the problem is. The plan is to backup my vital stuff onto CD so that at least my data is safe. A lot of the important stuff is online so backing up is not as big a deal as it could be.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Today's Gratitude Item: Morning tea which featured free food courtesy of a lovely student teacher who had her last day where I was relieving. This was extra special as "the call" came through at 6.30am and I did not have time for breakfast.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Today's Gratitude Item: Being able to sleep in *again*. This is a really handy thing when one is physically exhausted after dance camp. Not sore or stiff, just "body tired" and finding getting out of a nice warm bed even harder than usual.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Today's Gratitude Item: That my dad managed to get a flight home from Wellington today. He had to go there for the day on business and the weather was so bad that it got featured in the news. Very few flights managed to take off, and he was delayed for hours at the airport but luckily, his was one of the two flights that was not cancelled and he made it home safely.

Today's Gratitude Item: That tomorrow is the start of dance camp! This is an event that I look forward to all year and tomorrow, I fly to Wellington for three days of Israeli dance. This year, the choreographers are Moshe Telem and Ra'anan Mor. It should be great. I'll be back in three days, (ie: late Monday night), so don't worry when this blog remains rather quiet.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Today's Gratitude Item: That I had only walked a quarter of the way to the library when I realised that my library cards was still at home. Turned round and went back for it. It could have been worse, could have walked all the way to the library and then not been able to take out any books. What one does not do with one's brain, one makes up for with one's feet. That's apparently what my grandfather used to say.

Monday, October 16, 2006

Today's Gratitude Item: Having a day working in my "old" job. The teacher I relieved for the past two terms was away today so I "got" his classes. His students did not know that he would be away and that, once again, I would be subbing for him. The looks on their faces when they saw me was classic. They ranged from horrified to pleasantly suprised. Most were visibly relieved when I reassured them that their current teacher would be back soon.

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Made for Simchat Torah. POV-Ray was used to generate the scrolls and then the text was put in using paint shop pro.

If you look at the super huge image, you will notice the text is in Hebrew, this was copied and pasted from an online Hebrew Bible. The only "problem" with it is that in a real torah, the text would not have any vowels. Of course a "real" torah does not have the rewind instruction either.

Today's Gratitude Item: Locating yarn for my current project that was cheap, the right colour and the right thickness. Trust me when I say that this was not as easy to do as it sounds.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Today's Gratitude Item: Laughter. Sometimes it is easy to forget how precious and wonderful laughter is. Yesterday, something happened that was so funny, it reduced me to tears. It was one of those "you had to be there" kind of things and it was wonderful to be able to simply laugh "hard out".

Friday, October 06, 2006

This one would take too long to explain. If you don't know what Sukkot is, then you probably won't "get it". That's OK though. It was fun to make.

The super large version is available at the preceding link (for printing purposes).

Today's Gratitude Item: Being warm again. It snowed on the mountains last night which means that although the day outside is beautiful (clear blue skies etc), the wind is FREEZING. I did not realise this until a good way into my walk. Needless to say, it was good to get home and have a nice cup of hot chocolate.

Today's Gratitude Item: That I had help covering books in the library today. Both the manager and her daughter pitched in and it was really lovely to have company with what is usually a rather lonely task.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Today's Gratitude Item: That our house is not built on a cliff. Seriously! A house not too far from us which was built on a cliff had to be evacuated due to a landslide. When I walked down to the ferry this afternoon, there was a news crew setting up to do a live broadcast about the slip. This one was a bit too close to home for my liking.